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Helping programmers improve the energy efficiency of source code

Authors:

Tiago Carção,

João Paulo Fernandes,

João SaraivaAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE-C '17: Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

Pages 238 - 240

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.80

Published: 20 May 2017 Publication History

Abstract

This paper briefly proposes a technique to detect energy inefficient fragments in the source code of a software system. Test cases are executed to obtain energy consumption measurements, and a statistical method, based on spectrum-based fault localization, is introduced to relate energy consumption to the system's source code. The result of our technique is an energy ranking of source code fragments pointing developers to possible energy leaks in their code.

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ICSE-C '17: Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

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558 pages

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University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Imperial College London, UK
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